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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
Anne Enright
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
Anne Enright
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
Anne Enright
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how real your story is, or how made up: what matters is its necessity.
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Anne Enright
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
Anne Enright
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
Anne Enright
